Word on the street is that Comcast will be implementing a 250 GB/month usage cap on their internet service. This is, apparently, in response to the FCC smackdown they recently received for selectively blocking traffic on their network.
Comcast’s argument during that dispute was that blocking traffic (BitTorrent, to be specific) was necessary to maintain the [...]
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Herbert H. Thompson, a security strategistin New York, writes on just how easy it is to get access to your bank account, email, and identity, recounting his hack of a friend named “Kim”.
In Kim’s case some of that information came from a blog, but it could just as easily have come from a MySpace page, [...]
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Curmudgeon mode, Engage!
I’m a big gadget/Web/Internet/wasting time fan, but the latest waste of time just made me laugh today. It’s called firefly. Firefly (sorry, firef.ly; did no one learn from del.ici.ous, wait, deli.cio.us, damn it del.icio.us?) is a service that lets you add (sigh) live chat to your web site. Really. Live chat. You know, [...]
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Firefox 3 drops today and Mozilla is trying to set a world record for downloads in one day. I’ve been using the release candidates for about a month now and really like some of the new features like bookmark tagging and the download manager.
Grab your copy today, but not yet (8am EDT) and get a [...]
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Thanks Google, this is a very welcome addition to Reader.
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Since Alan salted the earth, burned his feed reader and I bloody hate Twitter, I’m making an actual post just for him. First and only time.
Do You Read Too Many Blogs?
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During a discussion over our first grilled meal of the year (brats), J– and I got into a discussion about LinkedIn. I asked J–, as a recruiter, what was she looking for in a recommendation? As we talked through the ins and outs of a telephone conversation with a listed reference, it become readily apparent [...]
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